Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [prep] them [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There are encouraging signs that our experiments in communication are starting to yield some useful results and we intend to continue with them in the future .
2 Listing particulars are required to contain all such information as investors and their professional advisers would reasonably require and reasonably expect to find in them for the purpose of making an informed assessment of the assets , liabilities , financial position , profits , losses and prospects of the issuing company and the rights attaching to its securities .
3 So I want to look at them at dinner time and share them with you this afternoon .
4 Because facing such questions has brought the work on long-term memory in Aplysia into the same biochemical arena as my own in the chick , I want to postpone considering them for the present and instead look at some of the problems which , in its singlemindedly reductionist approach , Aplysian orthodoxy — at least the orthodoxy of the mid-1980s , as I suspect that the position is now becoming much more flexible — has ignored .
5 Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view .
6 We are used to looking at faces , the faces of people , for their emotions and feelings ; and when we wonder about the emotions of animals we tend to look at them in the same limited way .
7 But after the first few meetings … well , the people there are nice enough … it 's just that we never seem to hear from them between our quarterly meetings " .
8 It 's a rather bad analogy , but I like to think of them as first-division football teams with their own particular qualities .
9 we like to think of them as the high-speed , high-performance loans .
10 Remember to check on them from time to time and water them carefully if the compost seems dry .
11 It would be tedious and is not , I think , necessary to examine them all but I must seek to trace the development of the law through the main decisions and I intend to refer to them in chronological order .
12 There were mill-owners in Bradford and Leeds who had been begging her for years to leave Old Ashfield and go to live with them in their fine houses .
13 I try to think of them as people first . ’
14 When people think of natural scientists doing research , they tend to think of them in a laboratory , probably doing an experiment .
15 I do not fish the big rivers like the Thames or the Trent for bream but I love to get after them on streams the size of the Wensum , Bure or Waveney .
16 After a time we come to think of them as old friends . ’
17 ‘ It is important that your bank knows everything about your business so that if you have to go to them for help they are in the best position to five assistance .
18 You have to liaise with them on policy and practicalities .
19 Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening .
20 Since such rules can be optionally applied to the same basic sentence structures , they provide a linguistic basis for the notion of * In this , as in subsequent chapters , we number examples and extracts only where we need to refer to them in the text .
21 But because mistakes are expensive and we have to live with them for a long time we tend to play safe and go for rather bland schemes .
22 Oh well just have to pay for them between us .
23 Winter-lets are not intrinsically bad , but they are ‘ symptoms rather than causes of insecure housing , chiefly because many authorities ignore the needs of people who have to resort to them for want of a better choice … . ’
24 They appreciate the humour and find the lesson units neatly fit the time we have to spend with them in class .
25 The students need to take with them to the placement properly prepared work-assignments requiring them , with the assistance of hotel staff , to observe some things , to do others and to enquire about a third group .
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